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"As Big 2024 Elections Loom, What's At Stake For Climate Action?"

"With millions voting this year from the US to India and the EU, more extreme weather could bump climate change up the agenda".

""LONDON/NEW DELHI – When U.S. voters head to the polls in November to decide a likely showdown between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, they will join the ranks of about two billion people voting worldwide this year.

In a record year for democracy, nations that are home to more than half the global population will have elections, including Indonesia in February, India by May and the United States and Britain later in the year.

The countries holding elections are responsible for more than 40% of the world's planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions.

After the hottest year on record in 2023, what could the elections mean for efforts to fight climate change?

Jack Graham and Bhasker Tripathi report for Thomson Reuters Foundation January 14, 2024.

SEE ALSO:

"Biden Needs Young Voters. Can His Climate Policy Rally Them?" (E&E News)

"Kerry: Stakes For Climate ‘As High As They Can Get’ In 2024 Election" (The Hill)

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 01/19/2024